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THE PIONEER 



DEDICATION OF 

THE PIONEER 

AN HEROIC STATUE IN BRONZE 

ERECTED ON THE CAMPUS OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 

BY 

HON. JOSEPH N. TEAL 

OF PORTLAND 

MAY 22, 1919 



PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 
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Foreword 

IN commemoration of the spirit of the Oregon Pioneer, 
and in the desire to set up where it would be seen 

by all generations of the young men and women of 
the West an inspiring figure that might arouse in them 
the ambition to emulate the pioneer virtues, Joseph N. 
Teal of Portland caused to be modelled and cast in bronze 
an heroic statue representing the ideal type of the founders 
of Oregon. This statue, the product of the genius of A. 
Phimister Proctor, was unveiled upon the campus of the 
University of Oregon, at Eugene, on May 22, 1919, in 
the presence of about twelve hundred spectators, including 
members of the University and numerous surviving 
pioneers who had themselves crossed the plains with their 
ox teams and brought civilization to the western forests 
and valleys. 

In appreciation of the act of Mr. Teal, the University 
of Oregon makes this permanent record of the circum- 
stances and of the program of the unveiling ceremony. 



Unveiling Ceremony 

May 22, 1919 at half past two o 'clock in the afternoon 
President P. L. Campbell, Presiding 



Overture, Titus Mozart 

University Orchestra 

Address of Presentation 

Honorable Joseph N. Teal 

Unveiling of the Statue 

Honorable T. G. Hendricks 
Assisted by his granddaughter, Martha Goodrich 

Address of Acceptance 

Honorable A. C. Dixon 
Vice-President of the Board of Regents 

Address of Acceptance 

Mr. Herald White 
President of the Associated Students 

Address— "The Outlook at the End of the Trail" 
Honorable R. A. Booth 

Poem, "The Pioneers" Dean Erie W. Allen 

Miss Charlotte Banfield 

Introduction of Mr. A. Phimister Proctor. 

Address 

Honorable Frederick O. Holman 
President, Oregon Historical Society 

Address 

Honorable George H. Himes 
Secretary, Oregon Pioneer Association 

March Militaire Schubert 

University Orchestra 



Introducing Mr. Teal 

By President Campbell 

Ladies and Gentlemen — 

The presence of so many pioneers of Oregon in the 
audience today makes us realize that this is indeed a 
Pioneer occasion. To them especially, and to you all, do I 
wish to extend a most cordial welcome in behalf of the 
University. This is a most memorable day in the history 
of the University, for today there is to be unveiled here a 
statue which immortalizes in bronze the virtues and heroic 
qualities of those magnificent men and women — and please 
note that I say women as well as men — the pioneers 
of Oregon, who fought their way across a continent look- 
ing forward with hope and determination to the building 
up here of a great civilization. It is especially fitting 
that this memorial of the pioneers should find its place 
on the campus of an educational institution, for the 
pioneers had as their fondest hope the building up of a 
great educational system as the foundation of a great 
Commonwealth. There were two thoughts uppermost in 
their minds, the one the thought of religion, and the 
churches were established, the other the thought of educa- 
tion, and the schools were established. So here on the 
campus of the University of Oregon, representing the aims 
and ambitions of this great Commonwealth in educational 
undertaking, most fittingly is placed this splendid me- 
morial of all the dreams, hopes, and ambitions, of all the 
strength, courage, and self-sacrifice of the noble men and 
women who laid firmly in education and religion the foun- 
dations of a great future civilization. 

We have been fortunate in the fact that the West has 
produced a great sculptor, one whose boyhood days were 
spent in the mountains and on the plains, one who grew 
up with the pioneers and learned to love and honor them, 



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and one in whose heart there has been an abiding hope 
that some day he might immortalize in bronze the heroic 
qualities of this sturdy race. 

We have also been fortunate in having in the state of 
Oregon a citizen of great public spirit, one whose birth- 
place was here and who grew up with the pioneers and 
learned to love and honor them. In his own life he has 
exemplified their virtues in rendering to the common- 
wealth most substantial and unselfish service in many 
fields of endeavor. In his heart also there has been the 
abiding hope that some day he might help to immortalize 
in bronze the memory of the pioneers. So by good fortune 
he thought of the splendid memorial of the Poineer which 
we have met today to unveil. And now, ladies and gentle- 
men, I have the great pleasure of presenting to you the 
donor of this stature, Honorable Joseph N. Teal, of Port- 
land, the generous and public spirited citizen of whom I 
have spoken. 



Presentation Address 

By the Honorable Joseph N. Teal, of Portland, 
Donor of the Statue 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

More than two years have passed since I wrote Judge 
Robert S. Bean, President of the Board of Regents, of my 
desire to erect a memorial to the Oregon pioneers and to 
have it placed on the grounds of the University of Oregon. 
The letter I then wrote expresses my sentiments and 
thought so accurately that I can do no better than read it 
to you today. It is as follows: 

"It has long been my earnest desire to express my 
admiration and respect for the Oregon pioneer. Having 
given the subject much serious thought, I am now ad- 
dressing you for the purpose of laying before you and the 
Board of Regents of the University the plan I have formu- 
lated, and to obtain your consent and approval for the 
carrying out of my idea. 

"The pioneer represents all that is noblest and best 
in our history. The men and women who saved the West 



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for this country were animated by the highest motives. 
They made untold sacrifices and endured hardships of 
every kind in order that their children might enjoy the 
fruits of their labor. Their courage, foresight, endurance 
and industry should ever be an inspiration to the youth 
of the country. I therefore propose to erect a memorial, 
which it seems to me should stand on the campus of our 
great institution of learning, the University of Oregon, 
where for years to come the rising generations of Oregon 
will have before them a reminder of those to whom they 
owe every opportunity they enjoy. 

"Accordingly I have commissioned Mr. A. Phimister 
Proctor, the distinguished American sculptor, to model 
a statue typifying the real pioneer of the West. It is my 
sincere desire and hope that, as the genius of Saint 
Gaudens has typified in imperishable bronze The Puritan, 
the genius of Proctor will in like degree typify The Pio- 
neer. Should my plan meet with the approval of yourself 
and the Board of Regents of the University, I would 
request that at the proper time and in concurrence with 
Mr. Proctor, a place be designated on the University 
grounds upon which the monument may be erected." 

This day evidences the fulfillment of this desire, and we 
have gathered together in honor of those to perpetuate 
whose memory this statue was designed. While it is a 
matter of greater satisfaction to me than I can express 
to have the opportunity of testifying in this way to my 
affection for the pioneers of Oregon, it is the genius of 
the artist which makes it possible to express in enduring 
bronze not only the sentiment, but the man. I wish to 
express not only my sincere admiration for Mr. Proctor's 
genius, but the thankfulness I feel for his unselfish devo- 
tion to the task and for the zeal and spirit which from the 
inception of the idea to this dedication have animated 
his work. The sculptor, not only an artist of rare genius, 
but a man of nature, of the mountains and plains, knowing 
at first hand the pioneer and his life, his real worth and 
what he endured and sought, has created a type true to 
life — the real pioneer as we have known him. 

This statue is erected and dedicated to the memory of 
all Oregon pioneers. It is in no sense personal or indi- 
vidual and it is my earnest wish and hope that this fact 
may ever be kept in mind. 



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The reasons for selecting the University of Oregon as 
the home of this memorial are many. It is sufficient to 
say that here the Willamette and McKenzie rivers join 
their waters into one grand channel and create this beau- 
tiful valley, the paradise to which the pioneer struggled 
over great mountains and across desert plains to which 
he first came in numbers, and in which he first made his 
home. Here too the state which he created has founded 
its great institution to train its young men and women. 
No more fitting place than the campus of the University 
of Oregon could be found for the memorial. Here amid 
these beautiful surroundings, in this institution of learn- 
ing, acting as an inspiration to Oregon's young manhood 
and womanhood, this pioneer in bronze will find a hospita- 
ble home in the land he loved so well. I am happy in the 
thought that I have had the opportunity thus to show my 
love and admiration for those whose life was largely spent 
in a work whose greatness and value will be better under- 
stood when viewed down the perspective of time. The 
greatest honor I have is in honoring them. Joaquin Miller 
thus painted the pioneers: 

"I only know that when that land 
Lay thick with peril, and lay far 

It seemed as some sea-fallen star, 
The weak men never reached a hand 

Or sought us out that primal day, 
And cowards did not come that way." 

Mr. President, my share in this very satisfactory 
enterprise is ended; with this memorial there goes every 
good wish for this University, coupled with the sincere 
hope that those who seek guidance and aid within its classic 
walls will never lose sight of what they owe the pioneer. 



Introducing Mr. Hendricks 

By President Campbell 

Ladies and Gentlemen — 

We are fortunate in having with us today to unveil 
this monument one of the first regents of the Universitj' 
of Oregon, one who is himself a pioneer of 1848, living 
since 1857 in Eugene. For 25 years he was a member of 
the Board of Regents of the University, giving it through 
all these years his heartfelt love and most devoted and 



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loyal service. Mr. Hendricks asks me to say for him today 
that, as he has seen this institution grow and develop, 
he still hopes that the years may be given him to see it 
one of the very greatest of the educational institutions 
not only of the Pacific Northwest, but of the whole country. 

We are fortunate also in having in connection with 
this ceremony of the unveiling a representative of the 
younger generation, the granddaughter of Mr. Hendricks, 
little Miss Martha Goodrich, the daughter of a regent of 
the University, himself a devoted alumnus, whose memory 
we revere. The pioneer period and the present period in 
this way come together on the platform today, and it is 
particularly fitting that the statue of ''The Pioneer" 
should be unveiled under the direction of a member of 
the first Board of Regents of the University by this 
representative of the younger generation. 

I now have the pleasure of presenting Honorable T. 
G. Hendricks, and also Miss Martha Goodrich, his grand- 
daughter and a granddaughter of the University of Oregon. 



The Unveiling 



The Statue, which up to this time had been hidden from 
the sight by the folds of the great American flag that 
had flown over the battleship Oregon on its famous race 
around Cape Horn to take an honorable part in the battle 
against the Spanish Fleet off the southern coast of Cuba, 
was now unveiled by the Honorable T. G. Hendricks, for 
25 years a regent of the University, and himself a pioneer 
of 1848. He was assisted by his little granddaughter, 
Martha Goodrich, whose father, Ray Goodrich, was a 
graduate of the University in the class of 1904 and later 
a member of the Board of Regents. As the flag fluttered 
down it was gathered by four undergraduate students of 
the University: Miss Leila Marsh, Miss Nell Reidt, Miss 
Ruth Graham, and Miss Erma Laird. 



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Address of Acceptance 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 

By Honorable A. C. Dixon, 
Vice-President of the Board 

Mr. PREsroENT, Mr. Teal, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

From the time when Mr. Teal wrote the letter which 
he has just read, until now, it has been my good fortune 
to have been in touch more or less intimately with the 
donor and the sculptor of this magnificent work of art, 
and to have been advised from time to time, through photo- 
graphs, letters and personal conversations, of the progress 
of their plans and the gradual attainment of their ideals. 
I have also been in position to note and record the pleasura- 
ble anticipation with which President Campbell and the 
Board of Regents have looked forward to this day. So 
were the question, ''Is it more blessed to give than to 
receive ? ' ' now up for debate, I believe I would be prepared 
to advocate either the affirmative or negative with equal 
zeal. 

Men like Henry Villard, Judge Deady and Mr. Hen- 
dricks made the University possible. Mr. Teal in many 
ways, aside from anything evidenced on this occasion, has 
always helped to support it and has been a loyal and true 
friend — coming to our aid in financial and other emer- 
gencies. To my knowledge he is always happy to be of 
service, as he is pleased now to honor the pioneers and to 
again do a favor to the University — and what he has done 
is a favor and a service of high order. 

For more than two years, Mr. Teal, in sickness and 
health, while home and abroad, has, it seemed to me, kept 
his desire to show his appreciation of the pioneers and to 
confer a benefit on our institution well to the front in 
his thoughts ; and while helping in other places and while 
taxed to the utmost for time and strength, no thing has 
been omitted by him that might hasten this day or add to 
its importance. The pleasure and satisfaction he will re- 
ceive from the knowledge that a generous idea has been 
worked out in a satisfactory manner will be his chief 
reward, for words can but fail to express the gratitude 
of the University. Only one with an accurate and under- 



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standing knowledge of the past and with a great vision 
of the future, would have thought of and worked out so 
successfully the plan which we see consummated today. 

In the business world many things are overlooked or 
forgiven, but never the failure to pay a just obligation. 
Do we always recall the debt we owe our forefathers — those 
who made possible the blessings we now enjoy ? Is not the 
besetting sin of our student days that of forgetfulness, 
carelessness and a seeming willingness to take what is 
provided without a thought of what it has cost others? 
I am sure you will agree with me that this is so. 

Now, on account of the spirit prompting the gift and 
the genius with which Mr. Proctor has exemplified the 
attributes of the pioneer, we will have always a reminder 
that we may no longer be seemingly careless, no longer 
neglectful of our obligations and no longer fail to render 
those who sacrificed for us that tribute of recognition 
which is their due. 

We cannot hope to fully understand the momentous 
events of the present and future unless we in a measure 
know the history of the past. Those great accomplish- 
ments of the present of which we are so proud may many 
times be traced to the rugged, adventurous spirit of a 
bygone generation which coupled with industry courage, 
with courage imagination, and with all a stalwart faith 
in the future development and progress of the state we love 
so well. 

"We must not do less than did these pioneers, and since 
our opportunities are greater we should do more. 

The historians of the future will not pass lightly over 
our failure to make the most of the talents and privileges 
we have, to the end that our successors will have even 
better opportunities than we have had to advance and fur- 
ther the development of the human race. 

On account of the enforced and to be regretted absence 
of Judge Bean, who is President of the Board of Regents, 
as well as an alumnus of this institution, and a pioneer, 
it is my privilege as a member of the Board to accept for- 
mally, on behalf of the University, this splendid work of 
art. This I do with heart-felt assurances of the apprecia- 
tion of the people of Oregon, as well as the University, 
extended both to the donor for his gift and to the artist 
for the expression of his genius. 



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Introducing Mr. Booth 

By President Campliell 

Ladies and Gentlemen — 

I said in the beginning that one of the first thoughts 
of the pioneers was the thought of religion. I speak of it 
again for the reason that the father of the gentlemen who 
is to deliver the address of the occasion today, came as a 
missionary to Oregon, and rode the circuit here under all 
the hardships of pioneer conditions, rendering aid in many 
ways to the families of the pioneers and giving to their 
sons and daughters the fine traditions of religion and 
education on which were built the substantial founda- 
tions of the state. He may well take pride in the magnifi- 
cent record which came to him from his father — a pioneer 
of the pioneer state of Oregon. He has not been unmindful 
of these traditions of good citizenship which were given 
to him, and he himself has made most useful contributions 
not only to the material development of Oregon, in which 
his part has been large, but through his interest in religion, 
through his interest in education, through his interest 
in the public life of this state he has made most important 
contributions to its higher civilization. 

It gives me great pleasure on this occasion of the un- 
veiling of the statue of "The Pioneer" to have the honor 
to present to you as the orator of the day, Hon. R. A. 
Booth, a pioneer himself, one who has known Oregon 
from its beginning, who will now address you on the 
subject of "The Outlook at the End of the Trail." 



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"The Outlook from the End of the Trail" 

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SPIRIT OF THE PIONEER 

By Honorable B. A. Booth, of Eugene 

The distinguished citizen whose act brings us to this 
assembly stands at the end of a long trail and typifies 
in an unusual sense and splendid manner the link that 
binds together the past and the future — the Oregon Pio- 
neer and his descendents, whose voice has been heard in 
new demands, whose acts have bolted the gates against 
barbarism and whose idealism is to be written into inter- 
national law. 

The figure that Mr. Proctor has given us in bronze 
fitly represents in form and expression the valor and 
heroism of the pioneer and will fix these characteristics 
in the mind of the passer-by and the student. But Mr. 
Teal's greatest contribution to the West and to his country 
is not in the gift of this monument — his greatest help has 
been his individual acts and associated deeds that like a 
strong thread have been woven into the fabric of our 
Western civilization. 

It has been given to me and to you to know him and to 
profit because he has lived among us. In the practice 
of his profession, the law, he has been just; he has been 
wise in his statesmanship and he has ennobled manhood. 
In him is the monument of the Western Pioneer. He is 
their kinsman. His workmanship in statescraft, his in- 
tegrity, his friendship, bespeak progenitors who had vision, 
true hearts and virtue. 

The purpose of this monument is to emphasize the 
courage, sacrifice and intelligence of the pioneer and by 
a continuous change secure to those who come after the 
best in pioneer life, leaving it for them to correctly inter- 
pret, preserve and transmit. 

It is no mere chance that this monument and the place 
of its erection were selected as expressive of the donor's 
desire to do honor to the pioneers and to manifest his 
confidence in those who may here assemble to do well their 
part in preserving the good of the past, in carrying it 
forward in a way best adapted to meet the demands of a 
progressive civilization. 



12 



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The best that a hopeful people can bestow is offered 
the student in a modern university and the student can- 
not be unmindful of the obligation. Here then is the 
opportunity to carry into the future the fruits of the 
pioneer spirit and the will to do and unite it with the 
high idealism of the young men and women of this Com- 
monwealth. 

The significance of this occasion is so well understood 
by those present that it is necessary for me to speak only 
briefly. 

The discovery and settlement of the Oregon country 
was the result of a unity of purpose that has controlled 
people in the Westward trend. Today we are not so much 
interested in the cause that determined the course of em- 
pire as the fact that there was a brain and heart that had 
discernment and courage and took up the Westvv-ard 
march. The cause and the event became increasingly the 
distinguishing characteristic of the men who arose as scien- 
tists, philosophers, discoverers and statesmen, that have 
become the mile-post of civilization. Some day we may go 
to determine and mark the first foot-prints of the begin- 
ning of the long trail and there erect a sign-board with a 
finger pointing Westward and write beneath it : " The way 
to Freedom and Progress. " It is enough for the duties of 
this hour for us to know that we are at the sunset terminus 
— children of those great men who were essentially and 
fundamentally the first Americans, as we interpret the 
word today. 

It is not difficult to see in the Mayflower the new Ark- 
of -the- Covenant and as easy to believe that whatever it 
contained that was hol}^ true and progressive, was trans- 
planted to the broad fields of the West when Pittsburgh 
became the new Plymouth. The unison of the tramp, 
tramp of the thousand feet that crossed the Alleghanies 
extended the trail until it led and spread over Ohio, Il- 
linois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri. And as 
these fields had greater fertility and broader area, so 
Americanism, exemplified by the pioneer spirit, found 
larger vision, fuller assurance and greater determination. 

But there was still another stride to be taken before 
the continent was crossed. Then came the sons and daiigh- 
ters from the states just named, not to make the western 
boundaries of the world, but to find, claim and dedicate 
them. These were the Oregon Pioneers, and it was they 



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and their influence and their children that planted here, 
may we hope forever, a loyalty to country and an un- 
selfish devotion to human interests that has been so 
frequently expressed in recent patriotic action that made 
Oregon the pride of our country and her people's con- 
tribution the glory of the world. 

I am willing that these discoverers may be listed among 
the Saints ; I approve the medaled recognition that is given 
the explorer, but I want you to acclaim with me that 
whether judged by their purpose or measured by their 
accomplishment the dauntless sons that kept to the border- 
land of an expanding world, the liberty-loving men of 
the Western prairie, the all-conquering sons of a new race 
that became the home-builders of the Pacific are the class 
to which the new generation that surrounds us today owes 
its debt and to which the world owes its best lessons of 
democracy. 

I hope that you have no patience with any who assert 
that selfishness was the force behind the Western pioneer. 
It may be true that he loved adventure, for adventure is 
a common human trait. May it never be forgotten that 
what he sought for himself he gave alike to every citizen 
of his common country. There was no competent govern- 
ment to reward him ; he established government and wrote 
constitutions. He defended himself against the aborigines 
and his country against the Britisher. He gave new mean- 
ing to human effort and found his greatest compensation 
in the consciousness that he had added new stars to the 
flag and given new opportunities to men and made the new 
ocean the new boundary to his new country. Here in the 
wilderness they were willing to build homes with their own 
hands and convert them into rich gardens and fair fields; 
to dot the hillsides with flocks and herds and to fill the 
rivers with busy wheels and floating vessels. They planted 
new cities and free institutions from mountain to ocean. 

Here it is safe to leave the Western pioneer to history 
and to history almost wholly he belongs. Soon he will be 
seen no more, and today there is only a sufficient number 
in this presence to hallow it. It is a pioneer hand that 
removes the veil from this monument and his hope that 
strengthens ours as we contemplate the doings of this hour 
and turn our faces for the onward look. 

There is no more West. It is the even-tide of the 
world's migration. For Western movement the night-time 



14 THE PIONEER 



is come. We pause only to look for a new light and here 
we shall find it, for where a university is there must be, 
there can be, no night. There shall be an eternal dawn. 
Then we shall not live in gloom that may belong to the 
past, but in the effulgence of a new light of truth, that 
will shine forever as certain in its course as has been 
the star of empire. 

For the moment at least we are thrown into a chaotic 
world, but just here we must have a vision or perish. Sons 
and daughters of the Saxon blood, behold the conquest of 
thy people. Glance backward over the pathway made in 
the last century by the race that brought us here and we 
see that no barrier stopped its course. Wherever man 
existed there it has planted its footstep. It has crossed 
every sea, traversed every land and every solitude. It 
has passed over mountains, watered deserts and driven 
disease from the swamps. It has girdled the earth with a 
path tragic and heroic. The blessings of its civilization are 
so wide flung that the sun and stars shine at the same time 
upon them, and there is no night shade or morning dawn 
where its blessings are not felt. But all this is not enough. 
The past as we see it now gives no guaranty of the per- 
petuity of any race or promise that its achievements may 
not perish. 

Western sons and daughters mingling together as 
common citizens of a composite race will apparently not 
long be able to trace their lineage. Hope, therefore, cannot 
be in purity of blood. It must be in fidelity to high pur- 
pose of mind and heart. 

Lowell said: 

"New occasions teach new duties; 

Time makes ancient good uncouth; 
They must upward still and onward, 
Who would keep abreast of truth." 

We are best only when we are striving for a fuller life, 
more adequate knowledge and larger measure of justice. 
In these purposes we find our present duty. The degree 
in which we qualify is the measure of the immediate future 
progress. It does not seem to be new statement that we as 
Americans need, but a better adherence to the principles 
of justice, mercy and humility that we earliest espoused. 
Enunciation is not sufficient, nor does frequent reitera- 
tion establish a truth. As Americans we need the closest 
self -scrutiny and an analysis that shows all the parts. 



THE PION EEB 15 



We are at a point where we must strive — contend — for 
moral unity. We need — we must have — the spirit that 
produced the ''Liberty" motor — the giving up of individ- 
ual patent rights that become the need of all. America is 
no longer an isolated country, and hence not immune from 
the poison of a virus that attacks in a thousand forms and 
finds ready culture among so many people. Safeguards 
cannot come from without. Our hope — our only help — 
must come from within. In this time of world struggle 
there are no adequate precedents, no trained leaders — our 
dependence then is a trained conscience, founded upon 
truth and justice — a mingling of the human and divine — 
that out of such a union there may come an unswerving 
devotion to the most adequate ideal of life. To whom shall 
we go to find it? The church and school were always a 
guide post to the American pioneer, but we must not be 
blinded by undue reverence for the one or assumed suf- 
ficiency of the other. Both should have — must have — a 
common purpose — the enlightenment and purification of 
the people, that righteousness may exalt every nation and 
justice be done to all mankind. To this end may our lives 
be pervaded by human intimacy and warmth and be 
propelled by the dynamic force of the Divine. 

May there come a new guiding star — or better, a more 
benevolent vision from the Bethlehem Star that shall lead 
not only shepherds to a manger but lead Jew and Gentile, 
bond and free, to an ever higher summit lifted upward 
by knowledge and virtue. 

This is the mission that is committed to those who shall 
here meet as instructors and students — "The Heir of all 
the ages in the foremost files of time." Here in the great 
West — the borderland — environed by all that makes for 
vision, may we not kneel on this greensward and with these 
trees, these rivers, these everlasting mountains as our wit- 
nesses, thank God that we are a part of the great West, 
and flushed with the dedication of a beautiful, a fitting 
monument, from a noble son, swear to a new consecration, 
imbued with the nobility of the pioneer and made irresist- 
ible with the gospel of truth. And may love, mercy and 
peace come and abide as long as this bronze endures, as 
long as mountains are the signets of God's power — as long 
as rivers flow to the sea. 



16 THE PIONEER 



Address of Acceptance 

ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENTS 

By Mr. Herald White, 
President of the Associated Students 

Friends and Fellow-Students : 

I feel it a great honor as well as a pleasure to have the 
opportunity of representing the University of Oregon Stu- 
dent Body on an occasion of this kind, in receiving one of 
the largest gifts ever presented to us. 

To me this statue is great in two main ways : First, it 
reveals an inspiration of forward striving and courage to 
our college students and passers-by, and, as it is a work of 
true art, it will never grow old in our minds or lose its 
significance to the generations, as they come and go in the 
future life of our institution. Secondly, it makes us feel 
intimately acquainted with Mr. Joseph N, Teal and we 
realize and appreciate his interest in our University and the 
higher education of our state more than we were aware of 
before, and we invite him to feel, as we do, that he is an 
active member of our institution. Also, we are proud of the 
acquaintance and friendships of the artists, Mr. and I\Irs. 
Proctor. We regret that their duties call them from our 
midst, but we hope that opportunity will permit their 
return many times in the future. 

In behalf of the University of Oregon Student Body, I 
take pleasure in expressing to Mr. Joseph N. Teal our 
heartiest appreciation and thanks to him for the great 
inspiration, and gift of art. The Pioneer. 



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The Pioneers 

A VERSE IN HONOR OF THE OCCASION 

Written by Eric W. Allen, Member of the Faculty of the Univer- 
sity, and Read by Miss Charlotte Banfield, a Student. 



Untrodden earth is joy to my feet, 

The round horizon balm to my eyes, 
The unforetold I run to meet. 

The not-yet-seen is my sought-for prize. 

The last of the land I made my own, 

I led the way to the farthest sea, 
For ages my kind struck out alone, 

But the last of my kind — will it die with me? 

Here I will halt at the end of my trail 
For I've trod the last of the untrod soil. 

Yet the soul of the pathfinder shall not fail — 
It shall struggle on to extremer toil. 

Dimly I vision a new frontier — 

I strain my eyes toward a virgin land — 

Sons of my sons, what do ye here 

But still press on at the old cormnand? 

Here let me stay where my youngest sons 
Turn first their feet to the out-bound trail — 

Where the road from the known to the unknown runs- 
Where the pathfinder's urge shall never fail. 



18 THE PIONEER 

Introducing Mr. Proctor 

By President Campbell 

Ladies and Gentlemen — 

I beg the privilege of taking you into my confidence 
for just a moment or two. I want to tell you that one of 
my chief concerns during the past few weeks has been to 
devise a way by which we might secure for this program 
a number which we all, and particularly Mr. Teal, the 
donor, particularly desired to have on it. But the diffi- 
culties in the way were many. It is said that genius and 
modesty go hand in hand, and this is particularly true 
in the case of a sculptor to whom the mountains and the 
great silent places of the earth have presented a greater 
charm than all the lures of cities. I knew that following 
Mr. Proctor's early life in the West, Europe had claimed 
him during his student days and that Paris and its other 
great art centers had held him some five or six years. But 
the call of a new world, the home country, was too great, 
and he returned to New York. A great career, with fame 
and fortune, opened up to him in the nation's metropolis, 
and in the midst of congenial spirits it seemed as though 
the East might hold him. But again the call of the new 
life was too strong, backed by the moimtains and the 
plains and an unconquerable desire to give lasting expres- 
sion in art to the magnificent spirit of the pioneer west. 
He came back to the old familiar hills, and soon again was 
on intimate terms with the sturdy mountaineers, the cow- 
boys, the Indians and the seductive wild denizens of lair 
and mountain fastness. The call of mighty peaks and 
rushing rivers was too great to be overcome. 

And, to revert to my own troubles, it was just here lay 
the danger in giving full freedom to ]\Ir. Proctor in the 
midst of the attractive scenes surrounding Eugene if we 
were to hold him for this program. So under the guise of 
hospitality we invited him and Mrs. Proctor to become 
guests in our home, and with the loyal assistance of friends 
and Mrs. Proctor's sympathetic connivance, have been 
able to keep his time occupied and his mind diverted up 
to this present good moment. I feel a certain feeling of 



THE PIONEER 19 



personal triumph in having brought the matter through 
this far. I have persuaded Mr. Proctor that we are not 
going to call on him for a set speech, but I did claim the 
privilege of presenting him to you, with the hope that he 
might be induced to say a few words very informally 
about the motives which lay back of this great work of 
art which we are unveiling today, and something of the 
history of its inception and working out. 

And so I am to have the privilege of presenting the 
sculptor, the one whose work is going to live here on this 
campus for a great many hundreds of years. There may 
be states that will rise and fall, there may be civiliza- 
tions that will fade away but judging by the great works 
of art that have survived from the remotest antiquity, 
we may be confident that this ' ' Pioneer ' ' will go on preach- 
ing his gospel of faith and courage and all heroic virtues 
to unnumbered generations to come. If we might see in 
prophetic revelations what he will see in fact, what dreams 
we might know will some day be coming true. 

Again reverting to the statement with which I began, 
I think my troubles are now at an end, and I am going to 
present to you Mr. A. Phimister Proctor, the sculptor to 
whose genius we owe "The Pioneer." 



Address 

By Mr. A. Phimister Proctor, Sculptor 

The sculptor of the statue, Mr. A. Phimister Proctor, 
had hoped to be a spectator rather than a speaker, and 
had agreed to allow his name to go on the program only 
for the purpose of an introduction to the audience, 
declaring he was unwilling to attempt to make an address. 

The assemblage that had gathered to witness the un- 
veiling was unwilling, however, to dispense with some 
comment from the creator of the statue. After some 
hesitation Mr. Proctor told extemporaneously the story 
of the modelling of The Pioneer: 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

If I attempted to make a speech I know President 
Campbell would be very sorry that he succeeded in round- 



20 



THE PIONEER 



ing me up for this occasion. Luckily for me it is not 
necessary, because of all that has been said about The 
Pioneer. Yet perhaps it would be right for me to give you 
a little idea how we came to do The Pioneer. 

The President has told you how I was connected early 
in life with the pioneer movements. . When I was a little 
fellow about five years old, my family went from Michigan 
to Iowa in a wagon, and that is the first thing I remember. 
Then from Iowa we went to Denver when I was a small boy, 
and there I grew up with pioneers and their ideals. From 
there I went to New York to study, but my heart was still 
in the West. I worked in New York for some years. I 
was married in Chicago and we worked in New York for a 
number of years more, but still the lure of the West was 
in me. Luckily for me, my wife too loved the West, 
although she was not brought up in the West. 

Finally my wife and I decided, as we wanted a vacation, 
to come West for a few months to be with the wild animals, 
to associate with the pioneers and to study the Indians. 
We were West a few months when my wife had to go back 
East to take care of the family. I happened to be in Pen- 
dleton at the time of the Round-up. I was very much im- 
pressed and concluded I did not want to go back to New 
York that winter, and so I sent my wife a 200-word tele- 
gram asking her if they could not come out here. My wife 
wired back "Delighted." So in two weeks she had com- 
pletely dismantled our house back East, rented my big 
studio and was on the train with our seven or eight chil- 
dren. We came to Pendleton and, of course, I immediately 
went to work on the big statue of the Buckaroo. 

All the time, however, I was looking for a good subject 
for a statue that I had intended to do whether I received 
a commission or not. Something happened right there 
that I think was the most memorable event that ever 
occurred in the Proctor family. Mr. William Hanley, 
who has a big ranch out near Burns, Oregon, invited us 
to spend some time on his ranch. It is needless to say that 
we went down there, two Fords full of us. And it is 
needless to say that we had the time of our lives on that 
ranch. My youngest son especially enjoyed it, and divides 
his allegiance between Mr. Hanlej^ and myself. If there 
was any doubt about anything, I think he would take Mr. 
Hanley 's word before mine. 



THE PIONEER 21 



One day while Mr. Hanley and I were walking about 
the ranch, an old trapper happened to pass by. All the 
time I had been looking out for a model for my statue of 
The Pioneer, and when I saw this man I reached over to 
Mr. Hanley and said, ''There is that man I have been 
looking for for ten years," and I asked Mr. Hanley if 
he thought the man might pose for me. Mr. Hanley said, 
''Sure he will pose," and called the man over and told 
him to camp there until I got through with him. I got a 
very good head, and about this time I heard Mr. Teal was 
anxious to put up a statue to the pioneer ; that he was only 
waiting foi* the psychological moment and the right man 
to do it. 

I went to see Mr. Teal and an interview was brought 
about. When I saw that cold eye and that set jaw, I said 
to myself, "I don't know about this." We had a little 
interview and I tried to persuade Mr. Teal that now was 
the psychological moment and I was just the man to do 
the statue. I showed him the head that I had made and 
gave him my ideas for the statue. He thought it fitted in 
well with his idea of The Pioneer, and finally the deal was 
put through and I undertook the job. 

I want to say that no sculptor ever had a finer client 
or a better man to work with than I had in Mr. Teal. When 
the commission was signed, "Now," he said, "it is all up 
to you. ' ' 

Well, we started on it, and there is one reason I suppose 
why I am so fond of this statue. I do not say that he is 
good, I only hope he is. And while I was sick (I was very 
sick after I received the commission) my wife kept holding 
it up to me, saying that I would get well (it looked ex- 
tremely doubtful to me for a long time) and that I musi 
finish and would finish the statue. As soon as I got well 
we got out in the mountains to do the statue. I had started 
a three-foot figure of this trapper that I had seen at 
Hanley 's ranch, and so I went up into the mountains 
some two or three hundred miles and he came up about two 
hundred miles with his horse and pack and we started in. 
We had a great many adventures and packed the figure 
around. In one place we almost had a shooting scrape 
because some old German shot the trapper's dog. While 
he did not have a wife, my model thought as much of the 
dog. He wanted to shoot the German and so we had to 



22 T HE PION EER 



move camp and carry the figure strapped to the horse's 
back. Finally it became cold and we went to California. 
The trapper went there with us, and I continued with the 
work, finally finishing it. 

Of course my wife has always been my inspiration 
and always if there is any real credit in that statue, she 
deserves at least half of it. 

There is one thing I tried to bring out. I thought of 
this statue for many years and I want to express my ideal 
from the spiritual as well as the physical side. Of course 
I do not know that I have done it : the only thing I know is 
that I tried. 

In doing this statue I made the friendship of my good 
friend, Mr. Teal, and the whole thing is worth while on this 
account. Besides this, I have made the acquaintance of 
so many of these good Western people whom I shall never 
forget. 

There is one thing I want to mention, and that is the 
regret that I feel in the loss that you have sustained in 
Oregon in the death of Roswell Dosch. I was looking for- 
ward for him to bring fame to Oregon. There are very 
few sculptors here in Oregon and in the West, and I was 
looking to him to carry the work on. I think that not only 
this University but the state of Oregon, and perhaps the 
whole United States lost a fine man and a fine sculptor 
in his death. 

I want to thank you for your kindness in listening 
to me. 



THE PIONEER 23 



Address 



By Honorable Frederick V. Holman 

President of the Oregon Historical Society, President of the Sons 
and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, and Former Presi- 
dent of the Oregon Pioneer Association 

Mr. President, Me. Proctor, Mr. Teal, the Faculty and 
Students of the University, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

I am not on the program for an address, and I was not 
aware that I should make any remarks until my arrival 
in Eugene at noon today. But since I have been asked to 
do so, I cannot refrain from saying a few things which 
I have in my mind, for I am a native son of Oregon, and 
have been for many years president of the Oregon His- 
torical society, and I am familiar with the early history of 
Oregon, its settlement, its upbuilding and its making, and 
the kind of people the Oregon pioneers were and are. 

Ever since its organization the Oregon Historical So- 
ciety has been engaged in determining the facts and the 
truths of history, particularly relating to the history of 
Oregon. It examines traditions and folklore. It endeavors, 
as it were, to separate the grain from the chaff. It studies 
the motives, the ideals and the acts of people in regard 
to the settlement and upbuilding of Oregon. It seeks to 
know the truth. Mr. Proctor, in this statue, typical of the 
Oregon pioneers, has portrayed truth in a way which 
should give to him the thanks of every student and lover of 
early Oregon history. This statue is a gift to the State of 
Oregon by a son and grandson of true and worthy Oregon 
pioneers. Great credit is due to Mr. Teal for his patriotic 
and unselfish generosity in making this gift. 

The Anglo-Saxon race is a branch of the Teutonic race. 
It was and is a liberty-loving race. It believes in the pro- 
tection of life and of liberty and in the rights of property 
and the pursuit of happiness. This race has large powers of 
assimilation, and its great ideas of liberty and of the rights 



24 THE PIONEER 



of mankind caused other races to become a part of it, so 
it became a people as well as a race. In early historic times 
it made its power felt and for centuries contended for the 
rights of the people in England, where it had made its 
home, and finally succeeded in making England a free 
country, as evidenced by the revolution and settlement 
of 1688 and the policy of the English people ever since. 
Its instincts and traditions caused some of its people to 
come to North America to begin and to continue its settle- 
ment and civilization. The first of these people came about 
three centuries ago. Many of them came thereafter from 
time to time. They landed on the Atlantic coast and 
pushed on westward. They soon adapted themselves to 
conditions and learned self-reliance and how to overcome 
the difficulties of establishing themselves in a new country, 
theretofore peopled only by Indians. They continued to 
push on westward and occupied what are now the states of 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Mis- 
souri and other western lands, now the Central states of 
this country. Their courage, their powers, their self- 
reliance and their ideals increased as they moved westward. 
They fought Indians ; they cut down forests ; they reclaimed 
wild lands; they established homes, schools and churches. 
It is of this people that most of the early Oregon pioneers 
are a part. 

The instincts and traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race 
have ever been to move westward. The star it had fol- 
lowed, which showed the westward course of empire, at 
last stood and shone over Oregon. Here was a wild land 
to be made useful and become a part of the civilized world. 
It was about two thousand miles west of the forefront of 
civilization in the United States at that time. Between 
that forefront and Oregon there are great plains, rugged 
mountains and large rivers to be crossed, a road to be es- 
tablished for them and for others coming after them to 
travel successfully to Oregon — "the land where dreams 
come true." There were great numbers of savage Indians 
to be encountered and forced to respect the rights and 
property of these immigrants. 

The lure of Oregon had appealed to many who had set- 
tled in the western states and territories. In May, 1843, 
without preconcert, but moved by a common impulse, 
nearly nine hundred men, women and children met at 



THE PIONE ER 25 



Independence, Missouri, ready and anxious to start on the 
long trip to Oregon. Some were poorly equipped for so 
long, arduous and perilous an expedition, for they had few 
precedents. But they were resourceful and filled with 
an abiding faith in their ability to succeed. 

They were courageous folk, filled and moved by great 
ideals, not that they knew they had ideals, and they prob- 
bably would have resented any intimation that they had 
them. But nevertheless they had these ideals and were 
influenced by them. These pioneer immigrants moved 
slowly westward, driving the oxen which pulled their 
wagons until they arrived at Fort Hall, about seven hun- 
dred miles east of here. There they were told that it was 
impossible to take their wagons to the Columbia river. But 
they were not frightened by this information. The men 
determined to go on as far as they could, for they were 
self-reliant, and their wives and daughters had every con- 
fidence in these resolute men. Loving arms went around 
stalwart necks, with cheering words and saying, "Where 
you go we will go with you and help in every way. ' ' 

It was a momentous occasion. They could have 
abandoned their intentions to go to the Willamette 
valley, and by forced marches probably have arrived at 
their starting point in Missouri before travelling by wagons 
became impossible the ensuing winter. If they failed to 
reach the Columbia river probably almost all of the party 
would have died of starvation and of exposure. There 
was little game west of Fort Hall. They cut themselves 
off from all sources of supply. If they failed it would 
probably have been many years before there was another 
overland expedition of immigrants to Oregon. It was 
practically impossible to send large numbers of immigrants 
by sea. The government of the United States did nothing 
to encourage or to assist the early settlement of Oregon. 
The peaceful settlement of the Oregon Question, especially 
by the occupation of a part of Oregon by American citizens, 
would probably have been impossible. It was a daring 
determination. 

If they had failed! These immigrants of 1843 were 
intrepid, determined, resourceful and self-reliant. They 
were not accustomed to fail in any enterprise they under- 
took to accomplish. 

And so, taking in their own hands the lives of them- 
selves and their wives and children and their fortunes, 



26 THE PIONEER 



they accepted the chances, relying on themselves and their 
ability to succeed. It was a heroic resolution fully carried 
out. They surmounted every difficulty. They made roads 
and crossed great rivers and went over seemingly impassa- 
ble mountains until they came to The Dalles on the Colum- 
bia river, beyond which travel with wagons was impossible 
at that time. From there they came down the Columbia 
river, rescued, succored and assisted to establish themselves 
in the land they had seen in dreams, the beautiful Willa- 
mette valley, then a fertile wilderness, by that princely 
great humanitarian, Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of 
Oregon. Thus the immigrants of '43 made and showed 
the way to Oregon for others to follow. The first home- 
building immigration was followed by successful immigra- 
tions, of the same quality of people, in the succeeding years. 
The coming of these immigrants was the cause of the peace- 
ful settlement of the Oregon Question, which for many 
years had threatened to embroil the United States and 
Great Britain into a long and bloody war. The British 
government feared that the whole Oregon country would 
be peopled by immigrants from the United States. 

And these are the pioneers of Oregon to whom be ever- 
lasting praise and glory. The coming to Oregon of its 
pioneers is one of the most daring movements and one of the 
most interesting and romantic stories of the settlement and 
upbuilding of any part of the United States. These 
pioneers and their qualities, characteristics and ideals, 
Mr. Proctor has exemplified and shown in this statue. 

I have not time to go into details or to show how these 
pioneers upbuilded and made this beautiful Oregon of 
today of which we are so proud. 

Many of these pioneers have gone to the Great Beyond 
and those now living will soon follow to honored graves. 
It is for their descendants to take up the work which these 
pioneers left unfinished. What they did can never be 
forgotten. 

But the Oregon pioneers did not comprise all of the 
people of Anglo-Saxon ancestry and heredity in the United 
States, nor all who were influenced by its traditions and in- 
stincts. They exert the great controlling influence in the 
civilization and life of this country. It was their influence 
which caused the Declaration of Independence to be made 
and the war of the American Revolution to be fought. 



THE PIONEER 27 



They carry on Anglo-Saxon ideas of the rights of life, 
liberty, property and the right of the pursuit of happiness. 
All these have been put to the test in the great world war 
beginning in 1914. The United States is a peaceful nation. 
But its people are not pacifists. There was, at first, great 
horror on account of German atrocities. This nation was 
greatly stirred by the sinking of the Lusitania. But that 
was a British ship and its sinking was not an attack upon 
the United States, dastardly as was the crime of its destruc- 
tion and the murder of its passengers. While it was an 
offense against humanity and against civilization, it was 
not a cause of war for the United States. 

But there came a time when the rights and liberties 
of this country and of the whole world and their peoples 
became involved ; when as a nation, guided by Anglo-Saxon 
heredity, instincts and traditions, it was not only proper 
but necessary that this country should be a participant 
in the war; that this country should make war so there 
would be world peace, and that the liberty of the whole 
world should be made safe. And then we did not hesitate 
to do our duty. The nation was united in its determination 
that the war should end against Germany, and our people 
pledged their all that success might be attained. The 
young men gave themselves to fight its battles, the older 
men contributed their moneys. The government Liberty 
loans and Victory loans were subscribed and over- 
subscribed in many parts of the country by people of all 
classes, by men and women, and even by children. The 
young women gave their services as nurses. And all over 
the country women, old, as well as young, willingly and 
earnestly engaged in Bed Cross work and other desirable 
and necessary war work and activities for the support, 
comfort and health of the soldiers and sailors of America 
and for the successful conduct of the war. The Anglo- 
Saxons were true to their traditions. This universal re- 
sponse is the glory of our nation. 

"When an American general, at the tomb of La Fayette, 
stood at attention and saluted the place where the body of 
America's great friend is buried, he said, "La Faj^ette! 
we are here." It was an acknowledgement that America 
would pay a debt of honor which it owed to France. But 
that was only a part of the object of our entering into the 
war. There was the world 's liberty at stake. The assassins 



28 T EE PIONEER 

of free government were to be conquered and subdued. 
And nobly did our boys do their part. 

The armies of France for nearly four years had fought 
nobly, bravely, gloriously. But France was almost bled 
white. They had sworn to die in the last ditch and they 
were perilously near the eastern bank of that ditch. Al- 
though they were fighting desperately they were being 
slowly forced back and were nearly overwhelmed. Their 
cry was, "When will the Americans come?" And the 
Americans came and nobly did they act. They may have 
lacked somewhat in military discipline, somewhat in esprit 
de corps, but they pressed on and fought with a dash and an 
intrepidity which surprised the Germans. They were not 
to be denied. Had they been commanded and led by God 's 
Archangels of Vengeance and of Victory; had they been 
inspired by the specter of Joan of Arc, clad in armor, with 
flashing sword in hand, mounted on a spectral grand war 
horse, urging our boys on to victory, they could not have 
fought more bravely or more effectively. But they did not 
need to be commanded or led or inspired. They were 
actuated and impelled by centuries, nay more, by thousands 
of years of Anglo-Saxon heredity, instinct, tradition and 
courage. And they had it in their hearts. 

When the Americans took part in the war it was the 
beginning of the end of the war. At Cantigny, at St. 
Mihiel, at Soissons, at Chateau Thierry, at Belleau Wood, 
at Argonne Forest, and elsewhere, they showed their 
quality and their desire and intention and ability to 
succeed. 

The liberty-loving branch of the Teutonic race overcame 
the liberty-destroying and autocratic branch of that race. 
The Hun met his master and was vanquished. The world 
was made safe for democracy. 

And Oregon boys were there, and nobly did they do 
their part. Many of them were worthy descendants of 
noble Oregon pioneers. They were true to the genius and 
traditions of their race. ' ' Oh, when will their glory fade ! ' ' 
Never, while the history of this war is known. As the 
Oregon pioneers showed their peaceful qualities in coming 
to Oregon and in its settlement, its upbuilding and its 
making, so their descendants showed their virtue, their 
fighting and heroic qualities in this war. Their actions 
show that the race has not degenerated. 



THE PIONEER 29 



Mr. Proctor, with his genius, has perpetuated all these 
qualities in this statue, and they will be recorded forever 
in history. 

The Anglo-Saxon qualities and ideals, its traditions and 
instincts, its love and support of the rights of life, of 
liberty, and of the rights of mankind will survive even the 
downfall of this republic and will endure as long as the 
human race. 

The human race from its beginnings has always been 
interested in monuments and statues as works of art, es- 
pecially when they typify great events and manly qualities. 
The adoration of statues as dieties is forbidden. But it is 
impossible to forbid the veneration of that which moves and 
touches the human heart. Could even divine power pre- 
vent the veneration of the graves of our ancestors, our 
relatives, our friends and those of the world's great men 
and women? 

This statue symbolizes and immortalizes in a remark- 
able way the Oregon pioneer and his qualities — his courage, 
his determination, his instincts and his high ideals, and 
those of the race or of the people of which the Oregon 
pioneer is a fine specimen and example. Let everyone, 
and especially the young men and young women who are 
now and who will be students of this university, observe 
and study well this statue, and thus learn and appreciate 
what the Oregon pioneers — the founders of Oregon — were 
and are. Let them strive to emulate the qualities and vir- 
tues of the Oregon pioneers and to respect and to venerate 
what they hoped, what they dared, what they wrought and 
what they accomplished. 



30 THE PIONEER 

Address 

By Honorable George H. Himes 
Secretary Oregon Pioneer Association 

President Campbell, Members of the Faculty, and 
Student Body, Pioneers, Ladies and Gentlemen — 
This is an eventful day in the annals of Oregon, and 
particularly in the life of its State University. I thank 
you, Mr. President, for your cordial invitation to be pres- 
ent, and on behalf of the Oregon Pioneer Association of 
which I have been the secretary since 1886, and the 
pioneers in general throughout the Pacific Northwest who 
have not as yet become affiliated with the Association, I 
deem it a great privilege to be given the opportunity for 
expressing my appreciation of the splendid as well as 
noteworthy achievement of Mr. Proctor in moulding this 
colossal composite figure representing the "Pioneer," and 
the generosity and fine public spirit of Mr. Joseph N. 
Teal, a son of pioneer parents, in making it possible for 
the artist to manifest his genius in this lasting memorial 
figure representative of the sturdy manhood that made 
the present conditions possible. 

This occasion is a peculiarly impressive one to me, as 
it recalls an incident in my own vjry early boyhood in 
1849 at my father's home in Lafaj^ette, Stark county, 
Illinois, to which place he and his wife and I as a child 
had removed from Pennsylvania in the fall of 1846. At 
the time of which I speak a number of Christian men from 
the vicinity of Monmouth, Warren county. 111., were guests 
of my father, also a Christian man, and the question of 
going to Oregon was under discussion, and apparently he 
was taking the lead. His attention to the "Oregor». 
Country" first came about in the beginning as the result 
of hearing Rev. Samuel Parker, of Ithaca, New York, 
lecture upon that subject in Troy, Pennsylvania, my 
father's native town, in the fall of 1838, and afterwards 
securing the first edition of his work entitled a "Journal 
of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, 
under the Direction of the American Board of Commis- 
sioners for Foreign Missions, performed in the Years 
1835, 1836 and 1837 ; containing a Description of the 
Geography, Geologj^ Climate, and productions; and the 
Number, Manner, and Customs of the Natives." 



THE PIONE ER 31 



Then again in 1842, father observed that Senator 
Lewis F. Linn, of Missouri, had introduced a bill in Con- 
gress to grant a donation of land to settlers in Oregon. 
He followed the discussion of that bill in Congress as 
fully as possible, and at the time of this meeting of his 
friends he felt certain that it was soon to become a law. 
And in view of that condition he felt constrained to urge 
upon his guests the necessity for beginning preparations 
to go to Oregon, take up land near each other and set aside 
a portion of it as a nucleus to aid in the establishment of 
a Christian institution of learning. 

A number of the men at that table came to Oregon 
in 1850 and 1852 and settled in Polk county, and the plan 
previously outlined was carried out to a considerable 
extent and resulted ultimately in the Christian College at 
Monmouth, of which Rev. Thomas F. Campbell became 
president, President Campbell of the University of Oregon, 
an alumnus, and the forerunner of the Present State Nor- 
mal School. 

Notwithstanding my father's interest in this enterprise 
as suggested owing to misfortunes on the plains in 1853 
on the way to Oregon, and his subsequent settlement in 
the Puget Sound region, followed by loss of property in 
the Yakima Indian war of 1855-56, the way never seemed 
feasible for him to join his former associates and aid in the 
effort alluded to in accordance with his original purpose. 

And now in this presence I am profoundly grateful 
that my life has been spared to see the fruition of his 
desires. And it is, indeed, with great satisfaction that I 
can recall many pioneers, in addition to my father, who 
had a far-reaching vision of the future of this great com- 
monwealth, and with great resolution in overcoming 
apparently insuperable difficulties, which beset them upon 
every hand, and urged on by an imperative idealism, have 
laid foundations for the instruction of generations yet to 
come in all that is the best for the upbuilding citizenship 
of the best type. 

And to the present student body and all successors, 
and to the public at large, I would urge a careful study 
of this great statue, rough in exterior, it is true, in keeping 
with the forces of nature that had to be overcome; but 
within a great heart and soul. 



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VOL. XVII JANUARY. 1920 NO. 1 

Published monthly by the University of Oregon, and entered at the poet 
office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. 

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